Time usually moves in one direction. Daniel Crooks prefers to split it open. 

This July, Calile Culture welcomes the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) for an immersive presentation of new work by Daniel Crooks, one of Australia’s most significant moving image artists.

This event will serve as the launch of Crooks’ latest time-twisting video, exploring the central void of Brisbane Girls Creative Grammar’s Creative Learning Centre, designed by m3architecture.

Known for a visual language spanning video, photography and sculpture, Crooks investigates time as a physical, pliable material – stretching, compressing, fracturing and reconfiguring familiar subjects and movements to reveal the everyday as quietly extraordinary.

The rare display of work will be accompanied by a discussion led by IMA Director Robert Leonard, a contemporary art curator and writer recognised as one of the Asia Pacific region’s most respected curatorial voices. Leonard will guide a conversation grounded in design, place and time, with insights from Daniel Crooks himself and Michael Banney, Director of m3architecture, on Crooks’ recent commission project.

Together, the installation and discussion will trace the meeting point between art, architecture, design and theory. 

Daniel Crooks – The Artist 

Crooks is a careful observer of the everyday through a lens that splinters and refracts. His treatment of time is non-linear, pliable and warped. Within Crooks’s video work, our perception of space does not remain in a solid-state. Like many scientists and philosophers, Crooks is fascinated by the potential of a fourth dimension to the human existence. His works are a suggestion of what it might be like to experience the world beyond three spatial dimensions with a fourth dimension that is temporal: the dimension of time. 
 
Crooks’s technique is the result of rigorous exploration and experimentation throughout his career, with the artist repeatedly examining and altering the same subject matter through new perspectives. 

When
Wednesday 8 July 2026, 6:00–7:30pm 

Where
The Calile Hotel Rooftop, Level 7, 48 James Street 

Tickets
$35